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Responsibilities
- Lead platform bring-up, subsystem integration, and software enablement across multiple product programs.
- Drive root-cause analysis and resolution of issues spanning hardware, firmware, kernels, middleware, and application layers.
- Own delivery of platform capabilities and subsystem features.
- Optimize power, performance, memory, thermal behavior, reliability, and user experience.
- Lead investigations involving CPU, DSP, GPU, memory, storage, interconnects, clocks, regulators, thermal management, and connectivity subsystems.
- Drive customer issue resolution, technical reviews, escalations, bug triage, readiness reviews, and commercialization activities.
- Provide architecture leadership, make technical trade-offs, and coordinate execution across software, firmware, validation, hardware, product, and program teams.
- Establish observability, profiling, performance analysis, reliability, design review, code review, and debugging best practices.
- Mentor engineers, support technical growth, and assist with hiring and onboarding.
- Communicate technical risks, execution status, trade-offs, and recommendations to leadership and customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 3+ years of related experience; or a master’s degree plus 2+ years; or a PhD plus 1+ year.
- At least 2 years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Experience with embedded systems, BSP, RTOS, Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, firmware, kernels, or platform software engineering.
- Strong expertise in platform architecture, subsystem integration, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Strong C/C++ programming skills.
- Preferred experience with modern SoCs, DSP, GPU, modem, Wi-Fi, connectivity, PMIC, power management, AI accelerators, heterogeneous computing, crash analysis, profiling, tracing, observability, and reliability engineering.
- Preferred experience leading customer-facing debugging activities and product escalations.
- Preferred hands-on experience with Claude Code, Claude CLI, GitHub Copilot, MCP agents, and automated engineering workflows.
- Strong architectural mindset and ability to balance performance, power, cost, schedule, reliability, and product requirements.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.